Guestbook Entries

Submitted:
First Name: Miki
Last Name: Karson
City/Town: Kenosha
State/Province: Wisconsin
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Director of a small non-profit organization providing peer support,self-directed recovery, advocacy and empowerment opportuniites to adults with mental illness. I have an M.A. in org. development.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
We are currently reviewing ways to engage community through education about mental health, recovery and anti-stigma. The modules are going to be an important part of our strategy and structure planning.
Submitted:
First Name: Padmanabhan
Last Name: Badrinath
City/Town: Bury St Edmunds
State/Province: UK
Country: Great Britain (UK)
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am Public Health Consultant working in the English NHS
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I found your workshop resource very useful and will be using the approach in a workshop we are running in our organisation.
Submitted:
First Name: Eva
Last Name: Yakutis-Mcniel
City/Town: Riverside
State/Province: California
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Office of Neighborhoods Manager for the City
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I am on my way to give a presentation on Asset Based Community Development and Community Organizing to the Crime Free Multi Housing International conference and am taking the good news about the CTB with me!
Submitted:
First Name: Tony B.
Last Name: Nelson
City/Town: Middletown
State/Province: Connecticut
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Training & Development Consultant (Ex-Offender's and K-12)
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
By utilizing resources in order to better enhance curriculums and service delivery to client base -(RESEARCH)
Submitted:
First Name: Sondra
Last Name: Myers
City/Town: Crowley
State/Province: Louisiana
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Educator of 33years - teacher, principal, currently 10 years as Director of Head S Start within a parish school system, mom of 7, grandmom of 8
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Head Start management involved a cycle of planning and assessment. With the Head Start Act needing reauthorization every 5 years, there are constant changes in program regs and services. TOOLBOX IS WONDERFUL!!!!!!!
Submitted:
First Name: Michael
Last Name: Contreras
City/Town: Mamburao
State/Province: Occidental Mindoro
Country: Philippines
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a Community Development Worker.....
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Community Tool Box helps me a lot specially on organizational and management aspect....
Submitted:
First Name: Key
Last Name: Frost
City/Town: Invercargill
State/Province:
Country: New Zealand
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hard Working student
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Creating a resource folder for Community Change
Submitted:
First Name: Anthony
Last Name: Selwyn
City/Town: Portland
State/Province: Oregon
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am NATIVE AMERICAN (SIOUX)I have been an employee of the college for the last twenty years.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I share the information with fellow employees and with the community I live in. IT IS AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE!
Submitted:
First Name: Lorraine
Last Name: Schoenbeck
City/Town: Columbia
State/Province: South Carolina
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Graduate student at Capella University completing graduate project on health care literacy.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Information and reference for graduate project.
Submitted:
First Name: Martin
Last Name: Risteen
City/Town: Norton
State/Province: Massachusetts
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Have used this in the past will be working with transgender/seworkers who would like to develop their own program for their community with regards to HIV/AIDS, staying healthy and empowerment
Submitted:
First Name: Annette
Last Name: Roberts
City/Town: Cambridge
State/Province: Massachusetts
Country: United States Of America
Submitted:
First Name: Jairo
Last Name: Viafara
City/Town: Winnipeg, Canada
State/Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Urban Planner and graduated sociologist. Continuing education courses in Business Administration, Community Development, and Small Business Management. Trained in Neighborhood Revitalization, and Transportation Planning. Experienced formulating goals, collecting, analyzing data, designing, planning, and implementing complete neighborhood safety, housing condition analysis, and metropolitan transportation planning studies. Experienced designing and evaluating demographic and environmental impact analyses. Researched, compiled, and analyzed demographic, land use, transportation, and statistical data utilized in community planning to support initiatives and functions. Designed public involvement, and community outreach programs. Project management experience overseeing consultant work, preparing contract, scope of services, project schedules, producing baseline, and final reports. Offering public presentation, group facilitation techniques, advanced survey methodology and statistical analysis skills. Member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I am preparing to work with a community group assisting them in the implementation of a community safety program. Three years ago, I implemented two community safety programs. From the begining to the end, every time I advanced to a new phase in the program, I assured to read your pages for guidance, and reference. Your tools were extremely useful. Thank you.
Submitted:
First Name: Jutamas
Last Name: Chotibang
City/Town: Houston
State/Province: Texas
Country:
Submitted:
First Name: Mark
Last Name: Brunswick
City/Town: Wilmington
State/Province: Delaware
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a writer and organizer presently living in Wilmington, Delaware. I work on Community/Labor coalitions that stretch across class and racial lines. I have a leadership role in the Delaware A. Philip Randolph Institute where we have a focus on bringing single payer health care to Delaware. We are dedicated to involving communities of color in key leadership on this issue.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
This is an expansive resource. I focus on your community organizing tools.
Submitted:
First Name: Alberta (Betty)
Last Name: Batenburg
City/Town: Torrance
State/Province: Los Angeles
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Have worked in the substance abuse prevention/education and treatment field for over 30 years including tobacco
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
grant writing
Submitted:
First Name: laura
Last Name: hall
City/Town: aiken
State/Province: South Carolina
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
graduate school student in Individual and Family Development South Carolina State University and an educator in character skills and family life education
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
To help research and identify problem and write a action plan to address it
Submitted:
First Name: Judy
Last Name: Dudley
City/Town: Riverside
State/Province: California
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Nursing student, currently completing a class in community health nursing.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
for a class project.
Submitted:
First Name: Molly
Last Name: Kennedy
City/Town: San Mateo
State/Province: California
Country: United States Of America
Submitted:
First Name: Brooke
Last Name: Howard
City/Town: Little Rock
State/Province: Arkansas
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a public health educator for the Arkansas Department of Health
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I use this toolbox to create and maintain healthy coalitions
Submitted:
First Name: Evelyn
Last Name: Baudoin-Glasper
City/Town: New Orleans
State/Province: USA
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
President/Founder of The Sunshine Career Counseling and Referral Services,Inc. a Non-Profit Organization with a mission to make changes amont the needy and amont youth in our communities.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The Community Tool Box is being used to help me prepare for meetings and to become more effective in gathering information from the communities to bring about changes and help families to become self-sufficient.